Rachel Moss
Kitchens & appliancesSix years managing turnover cleaning for a property group. Owns more microfibre than anyone should.
About us
We test cleaning methods so you don't waste a Saturday on one that doesn't work
Deep Clean Daily is a small independent publication. No sponsored posts, no brand deals, and no method published that we haven't tried in a real house.
Why we exist
Most cleaning advice online has never been tried
It gets rewritten from other articles, which were rewritten from articles before those. That's how you end up with vinegar recommended for marble, or a "hack" that strips the seal off a washing machine door.
We started EasyGuides | Simple Tutorials for Everyday Life in 2020 as a shared notes document between three people who kept re-solving the same household problems. It turned into a publication because the notes were more useful than anything we could find.
The rule has been the same since: nothing goes up unless one of us has done it, in a real house, on the actual surface. When something only works for a fortnight, we say so. When we get it wrong, we correct it and leave a note explaining what changed.
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Editorial policy
The rules we hold ourselves to
These are the things readers write in about most, so they're worth stating plainly.
We publish what failed
Most cleaning content only lists what worked. Knowing which four methods wasted an afternoon is often more useful, so we keep them in.
No paid placements
No brand has ever paid to appear here, and none can. Where we use affiliate links we say so at the top of the article.
Surface warnings come first
A method that strips a finish isn't a shortcut. We put the 'don't use this on' list above the instructions, not below them.
Plain measurements
Ratios, times and quantities, not 'a splash' or 'a good amount'. If we can't specify it, we re-test until we can.
Corrections stay visible
When we get something wrong we fix the article and note what changed at the bottom rather than quietly editing it.
Reader questions drive us
Roughly half of what we publish started as an email from someone stuck on a specific problem.
How we work
What testing an article actually involves
We pick a real problem
Every article starts from something that went wrong in one of our own homes, or a question a reader sent in.
We test the common advice
Usually three or four competing methods, on the same surface, under the same conditions.
We record what failed
The methods that didn't work stay in the article. Knowing what to skip saves you more time than another tip.
We revisit it later
Anything that only works for a week gets caught on the follow-up check, and the article gets corrected.
The team
Four people, four sets of stubborn problems
Daniel Okafor
Laundry & fabricsFormer dry-cleaning technician. Responsible for the towel article that upset a lot of people.
Priya Raman
Natural cleaningChemistry background, which is why our vinegar guide is mostly a list of warnings.
Sam Whitfield
Organization & systemsTests every storage system for three months before writing about it. Most don't survive.
How we got here
A short history
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2020
A shared notes document
Three people who kept solving the same problems started writing them down in one place instead of texting each other.
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2021
The first guides
Move-out cleaning and the first apartment kit went up. Both are still in the top ten most-read articles.
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2023
A proper testing routine
We stopped publishing anything we hadn't tried against at least two competing methods on the same surface.
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2025
500 articles, and a re-check policy
Every article in the top fifty now gets re-verified annually, with the revision date shown at the bottom.
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